Sec. 3. Imposition of sanctions with respect to foreign persons that knowingly spread malign disinformation as part of or on behalf of a foreign government or political party for purposes of political warfare
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The President shall impose the sanctions described in subsection
(b)with respect to any foreign person that the President determines knowingly commits a significant act of malign disinformation on behalf of the government of a foreign country or foreign political party which has the direct purpose or effect of influencing political, diplomatic, or educational activities in the United States for the purpose of harming— the national security or defense of the United States; or the safety and security of any United States citizen or legal permanent resident. The sanctions described in this subsection with respect to a foreign person determined by the President to be subject to subsection
(a)are the following: The President shall exercise of all powers granted to the President by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ( 50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) to the extent necessary to block and prohibit all transactions in property and interests in property of the foreign person if such property and interests in property are in the United States, come within the United States, or are or come within the possession or control of a United States person. In the case of a foreign person who is an individual, the foreign person is— inadmissible to the United States; ineligible to receive a visa or other documentation to enter the United States; and otherwise ineligible to be admitted or paroled into the United States or to receive any other benefit under the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.). In the case of a foreign person who is an individual, the visa or other documentation issued to the person shall be revoked, regardless of when such visa or other documentation is or was issued. A revocation under subclause
(I)shall— take effect immediately; and automatically cancel any other valid visa or entry documentation that is in the person’s possession. The penalties provided for in subsections
(b)and
(c)of section 206 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ( 50 U.S.C. 1705 ) shall apply to a person that violates, attempts to violate, conspires to violate, or causes a violation of regulations promulgated under subsection
(e)to implement this section to the same extent that such penalties apply to a person that commits an unlawful act described in section 206(a) of that Act. Sanctions under paragraph (1)(B) shall not apply to a foreign person who is an individual if admitting the person into the United States is necessary to permit the United States to comply with the Agreement regarding the Headquarters of the United Nations, signed at Lake Success June 26, 1947, and entered into force November 21, 1947, between the United Nations and the United States, or other applicable international obligations. The President may, on a case-by-case basis and for periods not to exceed 180 days, waive the application of sanctions imposed with respect to a foreign person under this section if the President certifies to the appropriate congressional committees not later than 15 days before such waiver is to take effect that the waiver is vital to the national security interests of the United States. The President may exercise all authorities provided to the President under sections 203 and 205 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act ( 50 U.S.C. 1702 and 1704) for purposes of carrying out this section. Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall promulgate regulations as necessary for the implementation of this section. Not less than 10 days before the promulgation of regulations under paragraph (1), the President shall notify and provide to the appropriate congressional committees the proposed regulations and the provisions of this section that the regulations are implementing. In this section: The terms admitted and alien have the meanings given those terms in section 101(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1101(3) ). The term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee on Ways and Means, and the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives; and the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate. The term foreign person means a person that is not a United States person. The term knowingly , with respect to conduct, a circumstance, or a result, means that a person has actual knowledge, or should have known, of the conduct, the circumstance, or the result. The term person has the meaning given that term in section 576.311 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations, as in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of this Act. The terms property and interest in property have the meanings given the terms property and property interest , respectively, in section 576.312 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations, as in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of this Act. The term United States person has the meaning given that term in section 576.317 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations, as in effect on the day before the date of the enactment of this Act. This section shall cease to be effective beginning on January 1, 2025. Paragraph
(1)shall not apply with respect to sanctions imposed with respect to a foreign person under this section before January 1, 2025.
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Imposition of sanctions with respect to foreign persons that knowingly spread malign disinformation as part of or on behalf of a foreign government or political party for purposes of political warfare
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